The Winter Is Finally Here

Even though 1st June is officially the first day of winter, it was not until yesterday that we feel the first taste of winter as the first 3 days have been sunny and warm with lots of sunshine. It was raining from the word go and the temperatures dipped to 10 degrees the whole day. At night it felled to a low of 2 degrees. We had the heaters on for most of the days when we are home and when we are outside, we wear many layers of warm clothing including wool sweaters, thermal wear and jackets.

The weather forecast is that there will be snow fall in many places in the South Island and central north island tonight and so the winter is really on now with the cold southerlies winds blowing from the Antartic. It is forecasted that Palmerston North will have a night temperature of -2 degrees while Taupo will have a -4 degrees tonight.

All is not gloom though as we may be going for a ski trip and building snowman at the peak of winter in Aug or Sept this year.